To the Honorable Senate, & House of Representatives of the United States.
The undersigned Citizens of Washington & Athens Counties, Ohio; hereby petition your
Honorable Body, for the following alteration in the mail rout between Athens, in Athens
Counties & Harmar in Washington County viz: Vacate so much of said ^mail^ rout as lies between Federalton & Constitution Post Offices, & establish a new mail
rout between said offices, on the Free Turnpike road leading from the mouth of Federal Creek in Athens County to Bailey’s Ferry in
Washington County, & establish on said new rout the following Post offices, & appoint
the herein after named persons, Post Master viz: Decatur, in Decatur Township, Philip Shrader Jr Post Master. Veto, ^in^ North Belpre, Daniel Shaw Post Master. ^&^ Glendale, Warren Township, Abisha Cole, Post Master. And, also extend the mail rout between
Harmar & Gallopolis, from Coolville, where it now intersects the first above named
mail rout, to the said Constitution office.
Nov. 25th 1848| John Clark | John Wallace | Jasper Needham Jr | |
| Miller Clark | Asahel Hollister | Archel Murphy | |
| Daniel Shaw | D. H. Cochran | ||
| John Tilton | Owens Patten | Edward McLarly | |
| John Ellenwood | Seymour Clough | John Reid | |
| Joseph Tilton | T. J Hollister | Samuel Ellenwood | |
| Freeman Hopkins | Milton Sherwood | Joseph S Dilley | |
| A. P. Barrow | Elisha Smith | S. R. [Smith?] | |
| Daniel Ellenwood | John. C. Rathbun | Jonathan Blough | |
| Abisha Cole | Wm Rathbun | I Rufus Blough | |
| R. D. Hollister | John G Dilley | ||
| John Wilhelm | John Coler | Edward [?] | |
| Aaron his X mark Henington |
G. H. Thompson | Isaiah Clark | |
| Jasper Needham | Abraham [?] | ||
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| H M [Clark?] | |||
| Augustus Ellenwood | Joseph W [?] | ||
| 40 | Wm Chealiar | N. K. Thompson | |
| 41 | Charles Morris | A P. Delano. | L. K. Swan |
| 42 | C. R. Brewer | Garret Nelson | Joel Dodge |
| 43 | E. Bailey | Lewis Delano | Willard Green |
| 44 | J Evans | Levi Swan | |
| 45 | W M Mies | Henry Swan | |
| 46 | Thomas A Hill | S. D. Ellenwood | |
| 47 | Borden Stanton | [D?]. Bickford | |
| 48 | Isaac Thomas | Charles Ellenwood. | |
| 49 | Wm Lewis | Benjamin T Bickford | |
| 50 | Parker Lewis | ||
| 51 | John Oakley | Isaac Bickford | |
| 52 | D H Loring | S B Swan | |
| Ervin Bickford | |||
| 53 | Eli Rosecrns | Thos B Shipley | |
| 54 | Joline Hopkins | ||
| 55 | John [Wives?] | Wm Hararper | |
| 56 | |||
| 57 | Richard Nelson | Rubin Finch | |
| 58 | Felix Halin | John Bickford | |
| 59 | Neil [Laynachan?] | Ws Cutler | |
| 60 | Bial [Stevenson?] | ||
| 61 | James Dunbar | Jesse Wilson | |
| 62 | Thos J Kirkpatrick | Melvin L Cole | |
| 63 | [L?] Cutler | ||
| 64 | [?] Cox | Samuel Goodwin | |
| 65 | S S Bryan | ||
| 66 | Danil Goss | Malaki Cole | |
| 67 | O. L. Clarke | ||
| 68 | Joseph Sibbley | Zachariah [K Bokeck?] | |
| 69 | Thomas. B. Hibbard | AB Dickey | |
| 701 | Wm B. Harrison | John Willis | |
| 71 | W S. Rollins | M. Morrison | |
| 72 | E. C. Dustan | Wm Calder | |
| 73 | Richd Cherry | W. D. Bailey | |
| 74 | John Potter | Dean Briggs | |
| 75 | A Winchester | ||
| 76 | James Colville | Alex McTaggart |
Handwritten Document Signed, 2 page(s), RG 233, Entry 367: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to Committees, 1847-1849, NAB,